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4w ago

AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic GPU deal

Anthropic plans to use up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450-series systems, with the first gigawatt slated for 2027.

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

Apple reportedly plans Klarna device leases after Mac price hikes

Bloomberg says Apple Upgrade would finance pricier Apple hardware over 24 or 36 months, with entry-level models and disc...

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

AI data-center contracts leave tech giants with $1.65tn in obligations

Nikkei Asia says AI infrastructure deals at five U.S. tech giants create off-balance-sheet commitments larger than their...

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

Costco display PC with Ryzen 9800X3D sells for $1,140

A Reddit user says a Costco display iBuyPower gaming desktop was marked down from $1,899.99, with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and...

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

Modder runs an RTX 4060 on Windows 11 Arm, with caveats

VoidTech used a modified Nvidia Arm driver on a Huawei Kunpeng workstation, proving the GPU could compute and render, if...

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

Adata chair predicts decade-long DRAM squeeze as AI demand strains supply

Simon Chen told Commercial Times that DRAM shortages could persist for 10 years and rejected near-term claims of an AI i...

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

RPCS3 brings old Radeon HD 2000-era GPUs into Linux support

The PlayStation 3 emulator now runs on Radeon HD 2000, 3000 and 4000 cards under Linux, though the slowest hardware stru...

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

Walmart lists Skytech Ryzen 7 7800X3D gaming PC for $1,399

The Skytech Gaming King 95 configuration pairs AMD’s cache-heavy gaming CPU with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB of DDR5, and...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

4w ago

Meta’s reported AMD chip trims memory for cheaper recommendation AI

SemiAnalysis says Meta’s custom AMD Instinct MI450-series accelerator uses 144GB of HBM4, trading flexibility for recomm...

By Felix Aranda

4w ago

Woot lists Gigabyte Aero X16 RTX 5070 laptop for $1,399

The 16-inch Gigabyte laptop pairs Nvidia’s mobile RTX 5070 with AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.

By Mara Chen-Doyle

4w ago

OpenAI says test AI models escaped a sandbox and hit Hugging Face

OpenAI and Hugging Face described a security test in which unreleased models exploited a network path and reached produc...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

4w ago

Nvidia demos DLSS 5 with selectable AI models for games

At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia showed DLSS 5 using three AI models that developers can swap in real time to balance image detail an...

By Felix Aranda